exercise

Group fitness has traditionally been a female dominated exercise style, but that might be changing. The origin of the “jazzercise” trend started with Jane Fonda and Richard Simons. These television and film routines generally showed an all female group and catered to the female market. Iowa State has been reporting lower numbers of men at […]

Jerry Smith is promoting health, one city at a time. The Michigan man has embarked on a remarkable journey to reach out to obese Americans. Over the past year, Jerry has lost over 130 pounds by riding his bicycle. He went from morbidly obese to a healthy weight, just by exercising. Jerry wanted to share […]

Collaborators from the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services are about to embark on the largest study ever conducted into possible links between exercise and breast cancer survival rates. The researchers will follow over 1,500 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer over a 10- to 15-year period. Previous research already […]

Overweight men looking to kick-start weight loss may benefit just as much from a 30-minute workout as a 60-minute workout, according to a new study performed at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The study tracked 60 men categorized as “moderately overweight” over a 13-week period. Participants were grouped in three categories. The first group […]

A new study may have discovered the key exercise amounts per day for sustained weight loss. A study from the University of Copenhagen, published in the American Journal of Physiology, looked at 60 overweight men who desired to lose weight. They divided the group into two sections and dictated their exercise amounts per day. One […]

Many states in the US and Canada have been dealing with incredibly high temperatures over the past few weeks. While the heat may make it more difficult to maintain a good workout routine, this type of weather can be used to your advantage in helping to achieve your weight loss and fitness goals. Working out […]